I have faced same issue and it was because of copy-paste. Typing by hand solves the issue. If you don’t want type all the command by hand try to go at the starting of the command after pasting it to the console and click backspace button multiple times. This should remove hidden characters and should … Read more
The release notes to the Git Bash 2.21.0 update today mentioned this as a known issue. Fortunately, they also described two solutions to the problem: If you specify command-line options starting with a slash, POSIX-to-Windows path conversion will kick in converting e.g. “/usr/bin/bash.exe” to “C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe”. When that is not desired — e.g. “–upload-pack=/opt/git/bin/git-upload-pack” or … Read more
Check what git remote -v returns: the account used to push to an http url is usually embedded into the remote url itself. https://Fre123@github.com/… If that is the case, put an url which will force Git to ask for the account to use when pushing: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user>/<repo> Or one to use the … Read more
Git for Windows is using the mingw-w64 project (as illustrated here) and msys2. See more in “How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?”. That is vastly different from WSL, which emulates an actual Linux distribution. Does it contain some constraints that WSL doesn’t have? The Git for Windows is based on a … Read more
The Pageant can load keys in the PuTTY format (.ppk) only. If you attempt to load a key in a different format, still recognized by PuTTY tools, you get the mentioned error message: Couldn’t load this key (OpenSSH-SSH-2 private key) You need to use the PuTTYgen to convert the key from the OpenSSH format to … Read more
I’ve got this working with ConEmu instead. http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/ Install Git Bash Install ConEmu Open ConEmu, in settings (top right corner), click “settings” In the settings tree, open “startup”, then “tasks” Add a new task, or edit one of the existing ones click on the “tab” button in second row from bottom in the first box, … Read more
git bash is a shell where: the running process is sh.exe (packaged with msysgit, as share/WinGit/Git Bash.vbs) git is a known command $HOME is defined See “Fix msysGit Portable $HOME location”: On a Windows 64: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” This differs from git-cmd.bat, which provides git commands in a plain DOS command prompt. A … Read more
Overview Open settings with Ctrl+, You’ll want to append one of the profiles options below (depending on what version of git you have installed) to the “list”: portion of the settings.json file: { “$schema”: “https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema”, “defaultProfile”: “{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001}”, “profiles”: { “defaults”: { // Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles }, “list”: … Read more